Bill Text: IL HB4417 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Probation and Probation Officers Act. Defines "pretrial services" as the services and programs established by a circuit court within a Probation and Court Services Department under the Pretrial Services Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0725 [HB4417 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB4417-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Probation and Probation Officers Act is
amended by changing Section 9b as follows:
(730 ILCS 110/9b) (from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b)
Sec. 9b. For the purposes of this Act, the words and
phrases described in this Section have the meanings designated
in this Section, except when a particular context clearly
requires a different meaning.
(1) "Division" means the Division of Probation Services of
the Supreme Court.
(2) "Department" means a probation or court services
department that provides probation or court services and such
other related services assigned to it by the circuit court or
by law.
(3) "Probation Officer" means a person employed full time
in a probation or court services department providing services
to a court under this Act or the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. A
probation officer includes detention staff, non-secure group
home staff and management personnel who meet minimum standards
established by the Supreme Court and who are hired under the
direction of the circuit court. These probation officers are

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judicial employees designated on a circuit wide or county basis
and compensated by the appropriate county board or boards.
(4) "Basic Services" means the number of personnel
determined by the Division as necessary to comply with adult,
juvenile, and detention services workload standards and to
operate authorized programs of intermediate sanctions,
intensive probation supervision, public or community service,
intake services, secure detention services, non-secure group
home services and home confinement.
(5) "New or Expanded Services" means personnel necessary to
operate pretrial programs, victim and restitution programs,
psychological services, drunk driving programs, specialized
caseloads, community resource coordination programs, and other
programs designed to generally improve the quality of probation
and court services.
(6) "Individualized Services and Programs" means
individualized services provided through purchase of service
agreements with individuals, specialists, and local public or
private agencies providing non-residential services for the
rehabilitation of adult and juvenile offenders as an
alternative to local or state incarceration.
(7) "Jurisdiction" means the geographical area of
authority of a probation department as designated by the chief
judge of each circuit court under Section 15 of this Act.
(8) "Transfer case" means any case where an adult or
juvenile offender seeks to have supervision transferred from

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one county to another or from another state to a county in
Illinois, and the transfer is approved by a judicial officer, a
department, or through an interstate compact.
(9) "Pretrial services" means the services and programs
established by a circuit court within a Probation and Court
Services Department under the Pretrial Services Act.
(Source: P.A. 98-575, eff. 1-1-14.)